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"withered" Definitions
  1. (of plants) dried up and dead synonym shrivelled
  2. (of people) looking old because they are thin and weak and have very dry skin
  3. (of parts of the body) thin and weak and not fully developed because of disease
"withered" Synonyms
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537 Sentences With "withered"

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But any return insults withered and died in my throat.
What if she were hideous or cruel, withered or dishonest?
Global warming, meanwhile, has withered pastures, intensifying conflict over land.
They slowly withered and rotted away, and are now gone.
In the withered totalitarian wasteland of Chicago, a spark flickers.
In the United States, volatility leapt and bank stocks withered.
Instead, it seems to have withered quietly on the vine.
Despite their recent busyness, Dixon and Stein aren't completely withered.
But the good feelings withered in the heat of Samara.
The Revolution that promised Iranians freedom in 1979 has withered.
Societies that reject us have withered, fading into history's night.
Economic uncertainties have withered the American Dream for so many.
Trees have died, crops have withered, animals have shrunk to skeletons.
Withered Franco-German ties are already showing new signs of life.
That's budded, withered, and come back to budding several times over.
Once described as a "bromance," the presidential relationship has since withered.
The NPD's membership has withered to about 5,200 (as of 2015).
The momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons has withered.
McGillis' courage as his body withered away stuck with Coughlin forever.
The London economy has thrived while the regional economies have withered.
His body-builder frame had withered by more than 60 pounds.
A half-dozen applications, Bickerton said, have withered or been denied.
Virtually everywhere federal enforcement has withered, states can provide a substitute.
The place looked run down, with withered vines and empty trellises.
They must be firm and dry, and neither withered nor soggy.
People decades younger than him look withered and elderly in comparison.
The withered remains do not attract fleas and, obviously, cannot cough.
His philosophy, "lateral thinking with withered technology," was predicated on dabbling in many different types of older, well-understood (or "withered") technology, and combining them in new ways, hence the Game Boy's thoroughly dated tech specs.
Once described as a "bromance," the Trump-Macron friendship has since withered.
During the course of the war, the country's economy has progressively withered.
As Brexit has dominated, the rest of the government's agenda has withered.
A rough repotting leads to withered, curled, sad leaves and even death.
As the middle class has withered away, so has its electoral salience.
In turn, consumer spending, once the engine of Russia's economy, has withered.
Whatever friendship existed between Oracle and Google executives has long since withered.
At the same time, other aspects of our homeland security have withered.
But somehow, the semiconductor industry hasn't withered — indeed, it flourished this year.
Withered eyes on child,Red lips as pepperoni,Ghost with gaping jaw.
Cold turkey is the withered flesh of a beast raised for slaughter.
Livestock were dying of hunger and thirst while crops dried and withered.
But the monkey show tradition has withered under the strictures of contemporary China.
Over the course of a generation America's once-thriving industrial heartland has withered.
As humanism and moderate religion have withered, gloom has pervaded that national mind.
Indeed, East German football in general had withered since the Berlin Wall fell.
The school system, Newark's largest employer, withered, as privately run charter schools proliferated.
His behavior turned increasingly erratic, and his body withered from lack of food.
The greatest liberation movement since 1989 — the Arab Awakening — withered on his watch.
Their myths live on long after their withered bodies are covered in topsoil.
She doesn't mention that iLike withered after the Profile Box was shut down.
The pro-life movement grew on the right and withered on the left.
Something was leaving me hostile and withered, though I couldn't figure out what.
Toward the end she had a withered quality, somehow stuck in another time.
The drama of the romance hasn't totally withered away, however; it's merely migrated.
Venezuela's once-strong petroleum industry has withered amid a years-long economic crisis.
Noisey: Withered has come back after a long break between albums—six years.
I had been entirely too eager to see in it proof of withered feelings.
But his legs are withered and a bulky hoodie can't hide his emaciated body.
I read this, feeling withered, like my flesh might drop off at any minute.
And my withered and overworked hippocampus, my brain's "information inbox," as Walker calls it.
Equipment was scarce, and funding for the television stations had withered to almost nothing.
Formerly imperialist powers have withered into nationalism (as in Brexit) and separatism (Scotland, Catalonia).
Klimt had withered on the floor and I tried to keep him near me.
When had the bronze giant I grew up with withered into this gray shell?
" He added, admiringly, "A lot of people would've withered under that kind of fire!
In Israel, the peace camp that backed Oslo has withered from waves of violence.
But as the emotions grew, so did the Nets' sound play, while the Knicks withered.
Do you really want your partner committing to a skinny, withered, unrecognizable version of you?
There were reports of fainting and some of the models looked to be visibly withered.
Before you know it, you'll be old and withered — wondering where all that time went.
Without him, democracy may have withered here just as it did across much of Europe.
I don't usually think of it as "withered," but as more bone dry or desiccated.
But I guess that if something is bone dry, it would have to be withered.
Support for old political parties has withered, while populist, anti-EU parties are gaining ground.
But the bad news is trading volume has withered even as the markets have advanced.
One turned into the scent of withered chrysanthemum,the other walked out of the story.
But the European nation state has not withered away as some of the pioneers hoped.
But while Pelosi and her fellow leaders held onto power, the party's backbench has withered.
Withered arms tangle in the cables of keyboards, and laptops, holding him to the earth.
Further Reading It was not a good idea that somehow went wrong or withered away.
The energy sector's poor performance means its importance to the stock market has withered away.
The energy sector's poor performance means its importance to the stock market has withered away.
A half slice of withered toast slumped in a saucer still damp with spilled coffee.
Some of the poorest parts of north-west Europe are fishing towns whose trade has withered.
The Department of Homeland Security's "Countering Violent Extremism Grants" program has withered under the Trump administration.
Since September 2014, when the coalition began bombing IS, the caliphate has withered with increasing speed.
Philippe had a paralysed leg, a withered right hand and poor eyesight, and repeated himself constantly.
The local economy suffered as the limestone quarries and hunting lodges closed and the orchards withered.
Last season's bitter gourd vines, now withered grey, hang from plastic nets above the grazing animals.
Promising acquisitions, including photo-sharing site Flickr and social bookmarking service Delicious, withered on the vine.
The withered man and woman talked softly, clasping hands with a serene look in their eyes.
As a result, the skills I acquired during my twenty years of training have withered away.
Remainers predict an economic armageddon of lost growth, a devalued pound and withered City of London.
Mr Sitole's crops have withered and died: a loss, he reckons, of some 2000,000 rupees ($750).
His lower half, which was still paralyzed, had withered, but his upper body kept getting fatter.
Still others withered when they came into a more benign contact with anthropologists in the twentieth.
A bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform passed the Senate, but withered in the House without a vote.
Whether stunted due to the tumor or killed by the chemo, Kevin's seventh cranial nerve withered.
Upon closer inspection I find that they are withered bamboo shoots to be used for cooking.
Old-guard black groups have withered, and Republicans have won every statewide office for a decade.
Another prompt indicated that Red had a scratchy voice, as if withered from lack of use.
It is true that Myspace withered after News Corporation bought it for $580 million in 2005.
The one upside of the heat, they all said, was that the olive fly withered, too.
He led me to a withered hemlock, its limbs arched and fanciful, like a hidden castle.
But the ties of the heart and mind, at least among young people, have withered away.
Crops withered and livestock perished after the last rains failed, leaving 2.7 million needing food aid.
The federal government once offered matching funds and grants for presidential campaigns, but public support withered.
The underground press, insane and livid in color and opinion, withered as quickly as it flowered.
In areas where sulfur dioxide emissions were strong, the vegetation turned brown and leafless trees withered.
Argentina withered as dollar demand increased due to high liquidity after the auction of treasury notes.
In the months after the explosion, every animal in sight was killed and every withered tree razed.
And playing powerful men, swathed in nature's finest withered leathers and tattered furs is definitely his lane.
The lines grew long and, after waiting in the heat for hours, many withered and gave up.
Euro zone business activity stagnated in October as demand withered, according to a survey published on Thursday.
While the rain helped vegetation throughout the state bloom, that foliage soon withered after a dry summer.
Mr Abbott declared it a priority at the time, though ultimately it withered after opposition from businesses.
A parade of men in hazmat suits gather outside a quaint suburban home tangled in withered vines.
Art, music and physical education have withered, because, really, why bother if they're not on the test?
Held up by withered sticks and even sections of plumbing pipe, they were old and falling over.
In 85033, after Alabama passed an anti-immigrant law, farm workers left the state and crops withered.
There were times in those televised contests when Bush withered beneath Trump's stare with a terrified smile.
Corn and soybean futures have gone haywire in past transition years, with prices soaring as yields withered.
A withered person with a scrambled mind, memories sealed away: That is the familiar face of Alzheimer's.
The hedge fund he started ran out of gas, various start-ups withered, writing gigs dried up.
Tourism withered, the curio shops closed and there was a painful tear in the cross-border culture.
Vine withered at Twitter in part from creators bailing due to its omission of native monetization options.
When a nearby dam desiccated the waterfall, the town's sole beauty spot, tourists fled and commerce withered.
That led to two years of missing the playoffs as the once-terrific defense slowly withered away.
But neither Bitcoin nor the Winklevii, as they're known, has withered under the unending stream of skepticism.
By then, after a string of misfortunes, documentary evidence of his music had withered nearly to nothing.
The differences are determined by where they originate and how they're withered, oxidized, rolled, dried and sorted.
But the Lord's Resistance Army has withered, to about 100 fighters from a peak of about 3,000.
She must rescue a golden key from an enormous toad that lives beneath a withered fig tree.
It wasn't until we started Withered, shortly after my father died, that I began musing about philosophy.
The vape lasted three nights in a row of multiple bowl packs before its battery finally withered out.
Those scorching temperatures withered the land, creating profoundly parched forests primed to catch fire with just a spark.
The downtown has withered and the local businesses have shuttered, but Carthage has grown, and GDP is up.
Kansas withered after an 223-29 run gave Iowa State a 214-21 lead with 113:211 left.
Regulations adopted in its wake gave New York's banks such a competitive advantage that local capital markets withered.
At the foot of the headstone is a withered rose, most of its petals stolen by the wind.
Another Deep State conspiracy theory hyped by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies has withered under scrutiny.
Once the war was over, those urban farms withered away, supplanted by increasingly efficient large-scale rural agriculture.
"Withered Hand" is a prime example, playing like a midtempo hardcore song that fits Dwyer's savage vocal delivery.
The game has not withered because of the free agency rights players gained under Miller; it has thrived.
Any remaining momentum withered as Trump drew a new hard line on what he wanted to see. Sen.
And the more time I spent with the dogs, the more my love for my fellow man withered.
Even as cycling built up Mr. Legarreta's legs, the rest of his body withered under the grueling routine.
Their lettuce gets soggy and withered, which is weird and gross but like, good at the same time.
Supporting his extended family and paying lawyers for his interminable string of court cases, Tupac's bank accounts withered.
In more recent history, prison funding has risen alongside the prison population; while social safety nets have withered away.
Singapore too, has seen abnormally high temperatures, while in Malaysia, lakes have dried up and vegetable output has withered.
He continued: Already naked, I lie sidelong on the examining table, And he gingerly spreads my now withered buttocks.
Time may have withered her, to misquote Shakespeare, but custom will never stale this mother's infinite, and exasperating, variety.
Founded in 1884, Jaeger flourished during the 1960s, but sales have withered as its customer base has grown older.
This spurred Miami to spend more on policing, fire protection and other city services while its tax base withered.
Apple stopped using Macworld as a launch platform years ago — and the event withered and died because of it.
Since the collapse of the peace process in 993 under Labor's Ehud Barak, it has withered under Netanyahu's shadow.
Usually when a franchise hits its eighth installment, the thrills have withered and the star power begins to fade.
Mrs Thatcher's deregulation of the financial-services industry meant that London and the South boomed while the North withered.
" But their arguments withered in the face of what the Free Press called Cockrel's "quick wit and stiletto questioning.
Is this just a bowl full of salt and lavender with a withered crochet hook laid across the top?
In near uniform fashion, their body language—previously upright and giddy—withered, their smiles shot and their shoulders slumped.
They were badly withered and resistant to the normal technique for removing proteins, which is done with a solvent.
In gardens, blossoms dried and withered, and the weeds by highway entrances took on the appearance of twisted wire.
A withered leaf of lettuce, a tasteless tomato and a slapdash dressing do not a thing of delight make.
Your brain feels like a withered sponge, your bones are dust, your blood feels pestilential and desperate for transfusion.
That was followed by months of extreme heat that withered the new growth and turned it into more tinder.
Among the estimated 19863,21986 people who were exposed was a newborn girl who withered and died from radiation sickness.
Yet, they withered in no time, suggesting that "values" may not be as deep and enduring as we think.
It wasn't just the cabbage palms—famously durable trees that grow across the Southeast—that were withered and desiccated.
The cult of the founder withered, while platforms sank into an endless war between the moderators and the moderated.
David Wright is a fine leader and a game ballplayer; he is also 33 years old, with a withered back.
Whatever talent she might've initially shown as a political mind withered under Westeros' patriarchal society, according to Dyson and Devries.
They tried to make a living by planting a crop of beans, but a severe regionwide drought withered the plants.
The silhouettes and color of the costume for the both the Aunts and the Guardians are more faded, softened, withered.
In a lot of schools, journalism programs have withered because of that reality and because of a lack of support.
Twenty-year-old Annisa, for instance, has the face of a Bollywood starlet, but limbs so withered she cannot walk.
He got so thin his arms looked like withered branches and the skin of his belly rested on his spine.
But cocoa fields in the world's fourth biggest producer have been left fallow and Cameroon's nascent tech sector has withered.
Lynch and Frost's Marilyn may have withered on the vine, but in her place, they came up with Laura Palmer.
But LaFleur says it's these areas, with the withered decaying branches, that show just what has happened along the bayou.
But responsible efforts to control the deficit have withered, and the ideas that have taken their place are much worse.
Withered trade unions in America and Britain have been far less able to win concessions than have their continental counterparts.
In my small eyes, and my smooth withered skin, you can see my heart, you can read my naked lips.
When it was time to go, my veil of confidence withered and my stomach was in some kind of knot.
Through the online Ham Cam, you can still keep an eye on the action of this withered hunk of meat.
For the next 60 years, children and teenagers with twisted spines and withered legs were a common sight in America.
While other inequality-justifying myths have withered under the force of collective rebuke, we cling to this devastatingly effective formula.
All his earlier moderate positions withered as he slavishly followed the money and applause from the basest of his base.
Educational proposals to decouple teacher evaluations from test scores withered, as did a reauthorization of speed cameras around schools. Gov.
Lewis complained that this 20th-century use of "influence" had a "withered senility" in comparison to its powerful original meaning.
The fertile red soil of the tropics became drier, finer, and soon there were only withered shrubs in the sand.
His support among independent voters withered, from more than 41 percent in February to less than 15 percent in December.
In Somalia, after two years of drought, crops have withered, livestock have died and grain prices have shot up sharply.
We had no relatives to visit, so Nowruz was withered down to one essential element: calling our relatives in Iran.
This is only one example of the need for the government to fund repairs to the withered campaign finance process.
Measures such as universal background checks have withered in Congress, where the number of anti-gun control Republicans has grown.
"Wood and Rock" is an ink-on-paper scroll depicting withered tree branches alongside a warped and winding rock formation.
In that time, the reputation of Wikileaks as a hard-charging defender of whistleblowers and an opponent of corruption has withered.
Shortly after coming to power in 2017, the Trump administration proposed eliminating the program and since then the grants have withered.
As tech companies acquired billions of users, and competition has withered, the United States paid only passing interest to antitrust concerns.
Governments and nonprofit groups open their wallets when outbreaks dominate headlines, but that funding has historically withered when attention dies down.
It is true that what Mr Trump regards as "jobs"—traditional, male-dominated occupations, such as those in manufacturing—have withered.
Driving through the area takes one past field after field of stunted and withered maize, much of it barely knee high.
Though intermittent power loss had long been normal, the extended nationwide failure was a crippling blow to an already withered economy.
Poor rainfall has left parched, cracked soil, fields of withered maize and bean crops, and empty water wells in these areas.
The design team apparently "withered" during Ive's absence, and at least six members quit the company in the past three years.
Business had withered in recent years—everyone owned a smartphone these days and had increasingly little use for his clunky machines.
Withered, blackened cypress and oak trees, succumbing to an invasion of salt water, turn once lush land into eerie ghost forests.
A withered succulent sat atop the file cabinet, and a framed Klee print hung at a slight angle behind the desk.
But as white working-class families moved out and poorer black and Hispanic families moved in, the federal government's commitment withered.
When the mall withered, voters agreed to spend $33 million in taxes to turn the depot into a home for museums.
Facing off Friday at Citi Field — Harvey for the Mets and Cole for the Pittsburgh Pirates — the aura had withered somewhat.
Green tea is not oxidized but simply withered and dried, producing a pale gold or green tea with a mild flavor.
This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 63 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered.
When guitarist Mike Thompson founded Withered with drummer Beau Brandon in 2003, they sounded nothing like most of their hometown contemporaries.
Former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyJames Comey describes Trump as 'shrunken, withered figure' in new op-ed BuzzFeed makes case for Anthony Weiner as most consequential politician of 2010s Jim Comey's damaging legacy at the FBI must be undone MORE said President Trump has become a "shrunken, withered figure," and urged Americans to challenge his actions.
But that part of Facebook has withered to near-nothingness, and in the meantime developers became one of the company's biggest headaches.
Malaysia accounts for 43% of the city state's vegetable imports and is currently struggling to find water for its drought-withered fields.
Renren and lesser rivals like Kaixin withered because they missed mobile, hugely popular messaging app WeChat didn't and now it is king.
Several speakers fearfully invoked the artificial intelligence winter of the 1970s, when investment withered because AI didn't live up to its promise.
There's a daisy: I would give yousome violets, but they withered all when my fatherdied: they say he made a good end.
By the 1990s, he and Fonda were divorced, their relationship having withered as she returned to acting and built an exercise empire.
OFA's new effort represents, in part, a concession that institutional efforts to cultivate a nationwide grassroots network withered during Obama's two terms.
With Kushner's power rising in the White House, Trumpism has quickly withered—except on immigration, thanks to nativist Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Both were skeletons of creatures big enough to have devoured others, yet it was their own flesh that had withered to nothing.
In the years since the revolution, that optimism has withered, and the authorities have cracked down on creative expression across the region.
Parts of rivers have withered into a series of ponds or wide stretches of stone, harming the ecosystems that depend on them.
The inflatable structure, which vaguely resembles a long-legged red insect, withered and sagged just as Adam Yates was passing underneath it.
Without that, the stories in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and many narratives parallel to it slowly withered away by institutional marginalization.
But before the current renaissance, in the Soviet period, wrestling was not given much attention; few villages had gyms, and sports withered.
And the corresponding ideal of the public — gathering to share in a common treasury of imagination — has withered as tastes have fragmented.
But as faith in Marxism withered in the 1980s and Russian nationalism re-emerged as a potent force, interest in "Russophobia" resurfaced.
To avoid participants feeling anxious when their plants withered or died, the authors kept more plants at the ready for a swap.
"Clients' investment mindset probably withered somewhat," he added, referring to a global stock sell-off at the start of the fourth quarter.
And so the Remainers' own last, consoling narrative has pretty much withered and curled in on itself, and we realize that Mrs.
His mother was never able to reach a clinic to have him vaccinated for polio, leaving Mr. Dongo with two withered legs.
It withered and died, converted into a haphazard and little-used Slack competitor that was quickly and efficiently overshadowed by Microsoft Teams.
Millions would die in the initial blasts and millions more would starve as the climate changed and our way of life withered.
But since Schwarzenegger warned Republicans in 2007 that the party was "dying at the box office" in California, the GOP has withered.
Last month, the company posted a larger-than-expected half-yearly loss and also cut its dividend as severe drought withered crops.
But some 6.2 million Somalis still require aid after drought withered crops, killed livestock and dried up waterholes, according to the United Nations.
But even as his once-stocky frame withered, he continued to go before his church to ask for prayers and to claim victory.
As global demand for commodities withered in the last two years, ship prices dropped more than 20 percent — and in some cases, more.
The last Blockbuster (which was a video rental place) withered away around the same time as the drafting of the United States Constitution.
The challenge withered, as did another DNA request in 2008 from the grand-daughter of one Giulia Manfredi, said to be Puccini's lover.
"Arms control has withered, and communication channels have closed," write Moniz and Nunn, who are co-chairs of the nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative.
And the bad ending is just horrific—a withered, defeated Geralt whose fate is left unknown as a swarm of monsters surrounds him.
They are like the last withered pie at Greggs, or a genuinely attractive person on Tinder who has set "Panda" as their anthem.
Mr. Goodall said that while many of Britain's traditional industries had withered, culture was one area where it still produced world-class exports.
This refusal to soft pedal the age difference — or pussyfoot around the tragedy of withered fame — prevents the film from sinking into sentiment.
Adia Victoria's powerful 2016 B-side "Howlin' Shame" lurches through foggy, spellbinding guitar and violin like the withered woman described in its lyrics.
Along the way, his hope for a muddled field has withered as Sanders has racked up a commanding lead in the early states.
Indeed, American politics have become far more polarized as parties ideologically realigned and the middle ground dramatically withered over the past 2628 years.
The drought has been devastating to hardest hit ranchers in the regions reeling from rising hay costs and withered grazing pastures, said experts.
Candidate Trump became a vehicle for this populist fervor; he gained in the polls when other candidates would have withered under media pressure.
Since the piece's installation, time has withered cabbage leaves into dingy yellow paper and blackened some carrots, while bleaching others white as parsnips.
And the broader field has withered over that period: Gun studies as a percentage of peer-reviewed research dropped 60 percent since 1996.
My interest in hockey has withered over the last 10 years as the N.H.L. has treated its fans and players with ongoing hostility.
A rising tide raises all boats, and Withered went on to release three well-received records, culminating in 2010's cult classic Dualitas.
In the 70s, Chali, the town marked out by this withered sign, was home to a humming market and even a functioning airstrip.
Morning, like the withered spirit that rises to neck painkillers and denounce all its misjudged pronouncements on Twitter, is now completely and utterly broken.
Blood work showed starvation had withered the horse to its bones and a stool sample determined its diet consisted of only dirt and wood.
She couldn't sit comfortably, because her buttocks had withered away, and she couldn't get warm no matter how many blankets she wrapped herself in.
Taiwan has previously developed its own missiles and also manufactured over 100 of its own fighter jets in the 1990s before the program withered.
A lot of people on Twitter found casting the insanely hot Marisa Tomei as the withered and annoyingly burdensome Aunt May as Hollywood chauvinism.
Democrats withered in statehouses across the country during former President Obama's administration, with Republicans gaining around 1,2023 state legislative seats between 2009 and 2016.
I shook his withered hand in the hot sun, then presented, with ceremonial panache, $20 and some goody-bag trinkets from Australian fashion week.
Since then, the institutions that arouse the moral lens have withered while the institutions that manipulate incentives — the market and the state — have expanded.
Other court filings have revealed that Uber wanted to partner with Google, but the relationship withered amid tension with Google co-founder Larry Page.
The protesters come from across Sudanese society, including sections of a shrinking upper middle class that has withered with the country's precipitous economic slide.
Since the 1960s the average landholding has withered from 2.6 hectares (6.4 acres) to 1.1 (see bottom chart)—about one and a half football pitches.
Critics note that the government has repeatedly announced "free-floating" systems that withered away precisely because authorities never allowed them to be determined by demand.
One study found "withered or sparse nerve endings" in people with fibromyalgia, and two others found "small-fiber" nerve damage in those with the disease.
He's referring to the protests over projects like Google's Pentagon contract which have withered under sustained protest from Bay Area opponents of the defense industry.
Poor rains meant the results were mixed but nevertheless, "if there wasn't this project, we would die," Hitasoa said as withered maize stalks crunched underfoot.
Like much of the art created in Theresienstadt, Serner's writings attest to a use of the German language and artistic endeavor that has now withered.
Instead, the land is parched and the grass is withered, forcing him to dip into his winter stock of hay to keep his herd fed.
To win over a father skeptical of the vaccine, Dr. Sadozai offers to buy a sheep and chooses an emaciated one with a withered leg.
The friendship withered when Ms. Graham began bringing around Mr. Anderson, a lithe, self-assured man who had a small flower tattoo on his cheek.
As factories closed and services withered, some free-market zealots in Moscow suggested that the city be put out of its misery and shut down.
His wealth swelled during the dot-com boom, withered in the early 2000s and slowly recovered as SoftBank became one of Japan's biggest cellphone companies.
I have seen many men and women, bald and withered and suffering, tethered to machines that serve only to prolong an end that is inevitable.
And executives must forge ahead while communicating clearly with their teams, even amongst uncertainty, or find their companies withered by the rapid passing of time.
She tells him she'll show him the way and steps into the flames, only this time she turns into a withered hag and burns up.
The South Carolina campaign will take place in a state where political insurgencies of the sort represented by Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz have often withered.
Critics immediately noted that the government has repeatedly announced "free-floating" systems that withered away precisely because authorities never allowed them to be determined by demand.
Blank buildings are painted into vibrant presences, while at other stages only death and despair are evoked in increasingly inky hues and withered trees around you.
Jerry Falwell, have died or retired; its organizational weight has withered; its crusades, such as the push against same-sex marriage, appear to be lost causes.
Now it's poised to tap the local ad market, which has continued to grow, even as the local media which once served that function has withered.
The main election issue is the fate of the Avtovaz car plant, maker of the once ubiquitous Lada and a symbol of withered Soviet industrial muscle.
Cotton, a former Army infantry officer, expressed concern that the service's artillery branch has withered away over the course of the wars in the Middle East.
While Welbilt's revenue has declined in recent years and its net margins have withered, JBT's revenue growth is accelerating year-to-year, despite slightly slacking margins.
So hot that you stopped mocking the pinkness of Dr Alex on Love Island for a bit because your skin had matured to a withered puce.
In March, Wake begins a four-week North American tour, joining up with Atlanta blackened death/doom band Withered for the U.S. and Eastern Canadian dates.
That spirit, they lamented, is sorely in need of bolstering today, as the block's counterculture vibe has withered in the face of gentrification and rising rents.
Born to German immigrants in Hoboken, N.J., in 29 as Dorothea Nutzhorn, she contracted polio at 7 and limped thereafter from a withered right lower leg.
As budgets have withered over the years, renting a plane is increasingly rare, but The Star-Ledger and Mr. Mills were willing to take the risk.
A withered person with a scrambled mind, memories sealed away: That is the familiar face of Alzheimer's, a disease that strikes an American every 67 seconds.
Many of the journalists will be assigned to beats that have withered with the local news crisis, like local government, veterans issues, military bases and housing.
But Europe's withered oil demand growth due to energy efficiency and a shift away from heavy industry has cut its importance to the world's demand growth.
Boîte Last December, wistful partygoers made pilgrimages to western SoHo for the final days of Sway, a lounge whose popularity withered over the last half-decade.
"Mount Tai has collapsed, the pillars have broken, a wise man has withered," a user identified as MYZ wrote, in a comment "liked" more than 100 times.
But as we know, much of the Obama agenda withered on the vine, thanks in large part to a deluge of Republican-led filibusters in the Senate.
Whatever love once existed between the brothers, it's withered away to the point that Chuck was put himself through pain just for the chance to ruin Jimmy.
The extortion of Michoacán's avocado growers is not new, but is now resurging as the industry's profitability has boomed as criminal economies in the state have withered.
"Capability that is foundational to all major armed forces has been withered by design," Barrons said in the private memo which the FT said it had obtained.
The fallout from dicamba hit Weiss on two fronts: The drifting chemicals, he said, stunted his unprotected soybean crops and marked the plants with damaged, withered leaves.
It could not process the garbage or pass it through its digestive system, causing severe inflammation as it withered away, officials in the region of Murcia said.
But over the decades, the genre that brought us "Guys and Dolls" has withered into a damp tangle of wan jokes floating in a slick of ditties.
SIBATE, Colombia (Reuters) - Potato farmer Pedro Gomez stared out across rows and rows of ruined potato plants, the usually green foliage brown and withered by heavy frost.
In a state withered by five years of drought, the drenching of recent days and weeks has made it tempting to wonder if we're at a turnaround.
In one typical case, a 48-year-old receptionist was found dead in a hotel room in May, her body withered to 77 pounds, her heart diseased.
Dr. Ian Thompson of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, said he was involved with several clinical trials that withered for that reason.
In 2014 and 2015 alone, the state economy lost billions of dollars as crops withered and farm jobs vanished, researchers from the University of California, Davis, found.
In a suit filed in May, she claimed that her career withered because Mr. Weinstein spread lies about her in Hollywood after she rejected his sexual requests.
As hope for the law's repeal has withered in recent weeks, Mr. Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, got more bitter news as she attended Officer Pantaleo's disciplinary hearing.
Muresan lasted six years in the NBA before his back, withered by time and punished by both basketball's relentless pounding and his body's own enormity, finally gave out.
As often happened in distant enclaves in pre-internet days, the Italianness ossified—the dialect baffling actual Italians when they interacted with Lake Villagers—then withered, like Tontitown's.
In Oklahoma, state education funding has withered: since the crash of 2008 spending per pupil has been slashed by 27% in real terms, the biggest fall in America.
It's trivial, sure, but we dare you to find a makeup nerd who hasn't had a look ruined by a pair of lips that resemble two withered prunes.
There's the Duke who, once we slay the dragon, is withered into old age and accuses the Arisen of being part of another conspiracy to take political power.
On one ghost development called "Youth Zone", a lifeless block set in withered grass, graffiti on a steel door into the site reads: "Give me back my home".
Food supplies have withered in eastern Ghouta since the government retook two neighborhoods in Damascus that were used to smuggle goods to the rebel-packed suburbs in May.
Eventually, Valve shifted its focus to game streaming with the launch of Steam Link, and Steam Machines have withered due to a lack of support across the board.
First-year starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes passed for 295 yards, going 16 of 31, but the withered Kansas City defense could not give him an opportunity in overtime.
"From afar the trees look withered," said 67-year-old Reang Onnuan, a lifelong rubber grower, looking out at the sea of water from which her trees protruded.
This particularly warm October, eight out of 10 white truffles unearthed by Carlo Olivero with his trusty 3-year-old dog Steel were dark, withered and dried out.
But as meaningful access withered alongside print media, a new generation of sportswriters decided they would just stay in their living rooms and take their shots from there.
She was teased at school for her withered leg and limp, said Circe Henestrosa, co-curator of the exhibition, and her dress became a way to conceal it.
The Mexican government says the caravan, once numbering 7,000 or more after it had crossed the Guatemala-Mexican border, had withered to less than 4,000 by Wednesday night.
The only other artwork in the old reading room is a Caravaggio still life: a basket of slightly worm-eaten fruit stuck with a few pocked, withered leaves.
He farmed until a drought withered his paddies and a friend returned from Bangkok with tales of money made driving foreigners to palaces, temples and go-go bars.
It is important to note that even as the livestock industry has withered away to an economic pipsqueak in Wyoming, it seemingly retains political dominance over the legislature.
In the endless wars that criss-crossed the region, Raqqa was destroyed by the Mongols in 2400 and withered until becoming an agricultural and industrial center in modern Syria.
France recorded its highest-ever temperature at 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6°Fahrenheit) at the end of June during an intense hot spell that fueled wildfires and withered some vineyards.
Alteryx's offering comes amid a revival of the technology IPO market, which withered over the past few years as more start-ups opted to stay on the private market.
Easing his cigarette into his mouth, he took my withered and beloved book into his hands, and flipped open to the title page, pink pen poised at the ready.
Retail sales growth has withered in recent months, staying under 1% since late 2017 as Australia's once-booming housing market weakened dramatically leaving households with a mountain of debt.
Modern presidents are less constrained not just because of the expansion of the executive branch or because of the nationalization of permanent campaigns but because institutional checks have withered.
Facebook seems to be taking Messenger Instant Games quite seriously after its desktop game platform withered and mobile gaming was dominated by the App Store and Google Play platforms.
While other caravans have generally withered as they have progressed north, this one has grown, perhaps in part as a result of all the media attention it has received.
Without much match play to prepare her for a two-week, seven-match grind, Sharapova withered against Sevastova, the 16th seed and a United States Open quarterfinalist last summer.
And many leaders in the Republican-controlled Congress, where gun restrictions have withered over the years, have shown no change of heart in light of this week's school shooting.
The state of play: Education funding has experienced a large shift as federal funding programs based on student need surged while state funding for research and public universities withered.
TechCrunch has watched as new publications have jumped into covering the tech industry, old publications have withered and faded away, and every format of media has come and gone.
There's a keen awareness how complicated and divisive the issue is inside the Republican conference and how many times immigration as an issue has withered away in the past.
In the face of attacks from the Massachusetts Democrat, in particular, he conjured the image of financiers who have withered before her pointed questioning from the Senate Banking Committee.
Multi-state operators have turned away from plans to increase their geographic footprints and instead focused on their current customer bases as capital has withered and stocks have plummeted. 
It goes on to explain that Gary has withered away over the decades, it's best attribute being proximity to Chicago, a larger, healthier city which has also bid on HQ2.
Over the next year, as the science got stronger and VCs came sniffing, any hope of unity withered up and washed away, carried on a billion-dollar tide of investment.
While the dot-bomb era was devastating to Amazon shareholders, the company was ultimately one of the few survivors, leaving it in position to win business as its counterparts withered.
There were sun-withered leaves and clods of moss in my hair and about 25 feet of pure, clear country air separating my fragile skeleton from the hard, unforgivable ground.
Yet the government reckons that around a third of the country's coffee trees are unproductive, withered by age and neglect; others yield only a fraction of what should be achievable.
The closing years of the Sengoku period carry a nuance of something dying out; a sense of the Middle Ages coming to an end amidst a blasted and withered landscape.
Sears Holdings plummeted 33.7 percent after the retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, throwing into doubt the future of the company which has withered in the age of internet shopping.
Drought and heatwaves since late spring have withered crops in northern Europe, fuelling concern about tightening grain supplies and sending Paris wheat futures to their highest in over five years.
A business that grew to nearly $200 million in 240 from zero in 221 has now withered to little more than a tenth of its volume peak, customs data shows.
A business that grew to nearly $200 million in 2017 from zero in 22017 has now withered to little more than a tenth of its volume peak, customs data shows.
Madonna withered under oath recently as she was grilled over her allegation that a former close friend and art consultant stole her panties, a letter from Tupac and other stuff.
Persistent drought in the U.S. Plains withered winter wheat grazing pastures, which forced beef cattle into feedyards in states noted for growing corn such as Iowa and Kansas, said analysts.
All those celebrities sitting courtside at Lakers games (assuming they still go to Lakers games) — their influence has withered when set beside the rise of Netflix, Apple, Facebook and others.
Sleep-deprived and disoriented, she has lost track of time and language and has withered physically, with "gray-brown circles under her eyes" and a "yellow tinge" to her skin.
Critics immediately questioned the latter claim, noting that the government has repeatedly announced "free-floating" systems that withered away precisely because authorities never allowed them to be determined by demand.
Bidding for the 2026 Games experienced a similarly withered field of candidates as public interest flagged or rose in opposition in Calgary, Alberta; Sion, Switzerland; Graz, Austria; and Sapporo, Japan.
While a few pump jacks still buck up and down in the area, Leduc changed the equation and the town gradually withered away, its buildings knocked down or hauled away.
CreditCreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times Maria Davila lay mute in a nursing home bed, an anguished expression fixed to her face, as her husband stroked her withered hand.
We see this in Congress most starkly; that branch of government has withered to a point where, in most years, it cannot perform even its most basic budget-creation duties.
Black tea, the most common and popular type in the west, is brewed from withered, oxidized (exposed to oxygen to break down the plant&aposs cells), and dried tea leaves.
U.S. retailers are going through a period of upheaval, throwing into doubt the future of the retailers that once dominated U.S. malls but has withered in the age of internet shopping.
The moratorium on municipal bathroom regulations, described by Jackson as a "poison pill," withered Democratic support, and in the end all 16 Senate Democrats joined 16 Republicans in voting against repeal.
Eventually, the whole grove may be a ghost forest, its pink blooms withered for the last time as climate change shifts the shores in the surrounding Potomac River and Washington Channel.
The day may come when the nation suddenly finds the privileged status of the Anglican church intolerable, either because other faiths are much stronger or because faith in general has withered.
Kids can read along with Ted on an iPad and the High Priests of the Withered Tree can bow down before him and make offerings to the Ones Who Came Before.
The institutions, especially organised labour, that in West Germany's case funnelled millions of votes to the SPD in the glory years of the late 1960s and 1970s (see chart) have withered.
Spieth's hopes of emulating Woods by winning the Claret Jug for a second successive year withered away as he slumped to a final-round 76 on a desperately hard scoring day.
Despite being full of energy at the start of each round, the Irishman quickly withered after the first four rounds, dropping his guard lower and lower as the fight wore on.
Over time, it has increasingly helped to fund departments too, allowing police departments to buffer the ravages of state and local budget crises, even while other aspects of government have withered.
Major League Soccer is beginning to seem rather miserly in comparison to its Chinese counterpart, its financial sinews looking withered and scrawny next to the bulging might of the Super League.
Davos watching her old, withered form collapse into the snow surrounding Winterfell was lovely and poetic, and it said more about the cost of the battle than just about anything else.
While the spirit of President Obama's campaigns has withered inside the elite party establishment, it thrives in independent political groups because organizing has been the spirit of social movements for generations.
I was stuck between thicker options that gave me semi-greasy hydration all-day long and clogged my pores, or lightweight formulas that helped immediately but withered within a few hours.
Even those privately appalled by this administration's unethical and illegal conduct and its abandonment of G.O.P. values have withered and fallen silent under pressure from Mr. Trump and his rabid base.
While the spirit of President Obama's campaigns has withered inside the elite party establishment, it thrives in independent political groups because organizing has been the spirit of social movements for generations.
Let us look to our foremost cultural engines, many of which are still with us, some of which have withered into the digital graveyard, as the true barometer of music engagement.
It was a story that probably would have withered away — but by firing Comey, Trump turned this Russia story into a two-headed monster that is growing further out of his reach.
The book's most powerful passages describe the moral degradation that resulted from sustained hunger, as family solidarity and village traditions of hospitality withered in the face of the overwhelming desire to eat.
Her new house was an apartment in a big gray block of concrete and her new yard was a park across the street with withered yellow grass and an oily plastic playground.
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The market for condos and attached properties surged in Canada's main real estate markets, Toronto and Vancouver, as buyer interest in expensive detached homes has withered, data showed on Tuesday.
He could have squeezed a withered "ha ha" past the unimpressed gridlock of his lips or at least worn a facial expression that conveyed something other than "I was told by Applecare…".
After nearly five decades as a pariah of the West, even when his once booming voice had withered to an old man's whisper and his beard had turned gray, he remained defiant.
The male actors here — who also include Tom Aulino as a mysterious 130-year old man whose own anger has not been withered by age — offer an entertaining gallery of satiric portraits.
It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as Yahoo sold itself to AOL, AOL sold itself to Verizon, and Verizon realized it was a phone company after all.
At Eva's Garden Florist on the Upper East Side, which sits on a block covered by scaffolding, some of the flower displays have withered away because the scaffolding blocks out the sunlight.
All of the major candidates argued against any turn toward moderation, and they shared the same strategic vision for reviving a national committee and state parties that had withered under Mr. Obama.
But it ate at me, and if not for my wife and some lifelong friends, I could have withered from the weight of the responsibility of being the face of the lawsuit.
Muguruza, the 2016 champion, set about attacking Halep from the off but whereas all her previous opponents this fortnight has withered under the onslaught, battle-hardened Halep barely took a backward step.
Roy Moore arrived at his election night party about two hours after polls closed Tuesday night as his lead over rival Doug Jones withered away with more than two-thirds of precincts reporting.
Her testimony immediately followed that of Rick Gates, ostensibly the prosecution's "star witness" who testified that he helped Manafort commit various frauds, but whose credibility withered under cross-examination about his own wrongdoing.
All the while his own union withered under him: membership has fallen by half a million since the last election, and Unite has lost its position as Britain's biggest trade union to Unison.
When he was named acting director of FinCEN in June 2016, he assumed control of one of the most important law enforcement bodies in the US. But during his tenure, FinCEN has withered.
The importance of local multiplayer has withered as consoles became capable of increasingly stable internet connections, but the NX could bring four friends together without the need to splurge $200 on additional pads.
Photographed at the peak of life, the bouquets embody both the enhanced fertility some seek, but they also allude to desired termination — the gathered flora all eventually withered and are now long dead.
Duncan said the documentary evidence was more than strong enough to overcome the testimony of Rick Gates, Manafort's former right-hand man and the prosecution's star witness, whose credibility withered under cross-examination.
Michael Wahid Hanna, an Egypt analyst at The Century Foundation in New York, said the dispute had an indisputably political flavor in a country where free speech had otherwise withered under Mr. Sisi.
The Diamondbacks had withered without Pollock when he missed most of 2016 with an elbow injury, but they thrived in his absence last season, going 31-13 on the way to the playoffs.
Remarks by its foreign minister this past month were the latest sign that another country had withered under pressure from China over the contentious issue of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader.
"Why don't you in the West recycle your own waste?" said Phayao Jaroonwong, a farmer east of Bangkok, who said her crops had withered after an electronic waste factory moved in next door.
Donovan, a major fund-raiser for Mitt Romney and then Jeb Bush during the 2016 campaign, has had several prominent conservatives vouch for his credentials and resistance to his nomination eventually withered away.
Gaunt, grey, somehow shrunken and withered with a pencil-like outline beneath his roomy old cardigan, Wenger looks to the sepia photos on his mantelpiece and sees the elegant, shapely manager he once was.
Perry, twice an aspirant for the White House and for decades a swaggering figure in the Texas Republican Party, returns to the national limelight after his career in politics withered amid scandal and embarrassment.
Climate change—fueled in large part by coal consumption—has created an epidemic of pine bark beetles, which have killed off great stands of lodgepole pines in Routt, reducing them to withered brown swaths.
This article was originally published on THUMP UK. When we're old and withered and drawing our last breaths and we take one last lingering look back on the 00s, we'll remember three defining delusions.
"If I was up here talking about having a cleft palate and had it operated on, or had a withered arm or was partially paralyzed, no one would make fun of me at all."
And as the Podesta Group has withered under the scrutiny, its employees were informed in a tearful meeting on Thursday that they may stop receiving paychecks after next week, according to people in attendance.
Hungry City 11 Photos View Slide Show ' They're ignored by much of the world, the withered, papery husks sloughed off the fruit of the coffee tree and discarded in favor of the precious beans.
Changing the nation's gun laws poses a test of leadership for a President with fractured relations on Capitol Hill, where gun bills have withered and died in the wake of other horrific school shootings.
It's my hope that those on the other side of the aisle will leave the President's withered breed of politics on the sideline and join Democrats -- centrist, progressive and otherwise -- to make real progress.
ARWAD, Syria (Reuters) - In the years before Syria's war the boatmakers of Arwad used to sell their wooden vessels along the Mediterranean coast down to Lebanon and up to Turkey, but the trade has withered.
Russia-North Korea relations withered after the Soviet demise, with the loss of support from Moscow often cited as one factor that lead to a 1990s famine that killed hundreds of thousands of North Koreans.
He had been troubled by all the young graduates going into banking or corporate law as a default, then growing disillusioned with their new careers while smaller cities withered for lack of ambitious young people.
Since then, BlackBerry gave up on manufacturing its own phones, and its BlackBerry 212 (BB22017) platform — its last attempt to stake out its own mobile OS with phones like the Z210 — has withered since then.
He explained that climate poses risks that are easy for outsiders to see—when you're reading about historic droughts in the newspaper and driving past acres of withered crops, it seems crazy to plant orchards.
Its first world is an anachronism-filled Old West town apparently transplanted onto another planet, complete with towering cliffs and the withered remains of abandoned gardens; it's both compelling puzzle box and eerie fictional space.
That's why Gizmodo catered to gadget lovers, Gawker to entry-level New York professionals who grumbled about their media-titan overlords, and Jezebel to feminists who withered under the 1950s sensibility of moldering women's magazines.
After that scene (which played over and over on Sean Hannity's nightly propaganda hour) Ryan's vision withered on the legislative vine — leaving Obamacare to limp on, its subsidies officially repealed but "temporarily" extended every year.
From May through September, he visited our hackberry tree twice each day, carefully recording the weather conditions, and also sampling, first flowers, then green fruits, then ripe, then withered, all placed into small plastic vials.
SAN FRANCISCO — When a withered Yahoo is absorbed by Verizon Communications in the next week or so, it will be the end of an era for one of the pioneering names of the internet age.
When I arrived in L.A. and realized that it was creatively dead, had a withered husk for a soul, and considered ombré the height of culture, I took the first plane back to New York.
Together, they've just finished the fourth Withered album, Grief Relic, which is due on May 313th via Season of Mist—right in time for their upcoming North American tour with fellow Southern malcontents Inter Arma.
The company that he and a team at the University of Pennsylvania founded 14 years ago to develop what would be the first drug in a new class of antibiotic went bankrupt after investor support withered.
Yet since the 1940s age has not withered them: an expansion in its 40th month is just as vulnerable, statistically, as one in its 80th (each has about a 75% chance of surviving the next year).
Instead of using the power of the I.O.C. to stand up to Russia, a nation whose highest sports officials have been implicated in a doping program that lasted at minimum from 2011 to 2015, Bach withered.
Democrats also hope to go after a few red states, and some of their early efforts in Missouri, Arkansas and Arizona, look to be bearing fruit, even as their hopes in Kentucky and Louisiana have withered.
Yet Ms. McMorris Rodgers has emerged as the likely choice to be Mr. Trump's secretary of the interior, while loyalists who backed the president-elect early on have withered on the vine of the transition process.
Over the next half century, as the estate tax withered, those shares of national income nearly reversed, with the top 211.4% now getting a fifth of all income and bottom half only a little over 20173%.
Neither the bands they came up alongside nor their own musical influences shared Thompson's elegiac sound and introspective lyrics, though, and so Withered remained a wholly separate entity, caught between two worlds and sworn to none.
Oct. 22014 (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp filed for Chapter 2900 bankruptcy on Monday, throwing into doubt the future of the century-old retailer that once dominated U.S. malls but has withered in the age of internet shopping.
Prices have risen since the start of the year, however, leading some OPEC oil ministers to declare that the market was finally rebalancing anyway as non-OPEC supply withered, despite OPEC's decision to maintain record production levels.
Ranchers in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana have been suffering through the region's worst drought in 40 years, which has withered grazing fields, causing a severe spike in the cost of hay to feed their animals.
Josephine: I just wish with all my withered heart that our culture's most prominent critics, like A. O. Scott, would see that the biggest debt we owe the living is to be cognizant of our own power.
The financials saw massive upside following the U.S. presidential election last November, but languished for much of this year as the likelihood of President Trump's pro-growth agenda passing was called into question and bond yields withered.
The Soviet Union maintained a constant navy vigil in the Mediterranean during the Cold War but Russia's presence in the region withered in the years after the 1991 Soviet collapse amid economic woes and military funding shortages.
But in the end, Mr. Carson withered under mocking insults hurled at him by Mr. Trump, especially in Iowa, and he suffered from voters' desire for a candidate projecting strength at a time of anxiety over terrorism.
At Disneyland, he broke open a baggie of withered mushroom caps and started breathing fast and shallow in line for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, sweating through his shirt, pawing at the orange rocks of the fake frontier.
When we visited that part of the country, which seemed to me as withered as Santo Domingo was lush, they never failed to appear — low-slung sweeps of light, streaking across a baseball field, vanishing into grass.
Cain's potential nomination, which was also seen as being overly political and particularly concerning given allegations of sexual misconduct he faced, finally withered after four Senate Republicans explicitly spoke out and said they would not support him.
In 2016, Withered remains one of the few bands willing to take the power inherent in extreme metal and focus it not on bloody escapism, but on the grinding reality that is daily life for most people.
Ted Cruz has been willing to attack Trump on the campaign trail and through ads, but until recently kept up a smarmy pretense of liking his friend Donald, hoping to inherit his votes after he somehow withered away.
Wani&aposs death and the subsequent protests made the armed rebellion mainstream in Kashmir and gave new life to the rebel movement that had withered in recent years, reduced to just about 100 fighters in scattered guerrilla groups.
Thirty-three-year-old Tony Parker, on the other hand, abruptly withered, not necessarily before his time—this is what happens to legs that have been squeezed and pressed for every drop since age 19—but jarring nevertheless.
But instead of channeling the emotion to ignite a rally, the Knicks withered, and the Clippers went on a 13-4 run after the confrontation on the way to a 116-63 win Friday at Madison Square Garden.
He remarked to The Los Angeles Times, "It's amazing to see the great lengths Roosevelt went through to create the illusion he could use his legs," which were withered from the polio he had contracted as an adult.
The best you can do is to note that the banks of well ponds are often steep, and in the winter, when the weeds have withered, the well ponds are like nothing so much as enormous, irregular buckets.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's armed forces would be unable to defend the country against a serious military attack because they have been "withered" by cuts, a former senior commander warned before his retirement, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
That decision by Cubs Manager Joe Maddon loomed large in the eighth, when the Cubs' two-run lead withered away, capped by Adrian Gonzalez's two-run game-tying single on a 102-mile-per-hour fastball from Chapman.
In addition to asking for any tests as to whether Ebbers was malingering, or faking his memory loss, the judge asked for information on Ebbers' rapid weight loss — the former bouncer has reportedly withered to around 160 pounds.
The crisis in the news media has been acutely felt in New Jersey, where the press corps covering the state government in Trenton has withered and larger newspapers in the region have reduced their staffs and their coverage.
After the worst drought in 60 years withered grain exports, a run on the peso halved the currency's value against the dollar, prompting the country to enter a $57 billion standby financing agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
He campaigned on the tax increase in 2013 and made it a key part of his inaugural address, but support for the measure in Albany withered once the governor and the Legislature agreed to provide the necessary funds.
But one of the Sarahs moved to Connecticut and the other Sarah's rich dad sent her to the mediocre girls' school in Pittsfield, where all the withered aristocracy waiting out death on our colorful hillsides sent their children.
Japan Display's finances have withered on fluctuating demand for Apple's iPhones, prompting it to request support from its biggest investor Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ) this year after a funding crunch saw it take out short-term loans.
Similarly, the drawn figures move not only across genders, but also between, say, the body image of a diva that is cultivated to perfection and never grows old, and the real body, withered and weary, which cannot overcome time.
I wish the hate apple had been withered and deadly, and I'd been able to take a bite from the still-crisp love apple and been nourished by the positivity, love, and light instilled in each of its cells.
He's arrived as promised, driving up in his big truck as if this were the country, idling for a while, the truck's headlights illuminating her, casting glare and shadow on the glass door, the frozen courtyard, the withered rhododendron.
While some veteran shows, including "This American Life", "RadioLab" and "How Stuff Works", have been broadcast regularly since their launches in the middle of the decade, many more withered away to nothing as quickly as they had sprung up.
LOS ANGELES — Ashley Judd sued Harvey Weinstein on Monday, opening a new legal battlefront for the disgraced film producer by claiming that her career withered because he spread lies about her in Hollywood after she rejected his sexual requests.
" Vienna under the Nazis is "buffed to a gleaming carapace of red and black, like painted lips over savage teeth," while jars in a Chinatown shop feature "shaggy tree bark, tendriled mushrooms, a root that resembled a withered hand.
The problem of empty ambassador posts is compounded by a steady exodus of diplomats from the State Department, where morale has withered under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's plan to cut the agency by as much as a third.
Matamoros — across from Brownsville, Texas, and not far from the Gulf coast — has withered under periods of violence in the past, driven in part by feuds within the Gulf cartel, which has been strained by battles for succession in recent years.
TOKYO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average slipped on Thursday, as banks and insurer shares weakened in line with lower interest rates while telecommunications shares withered on news that online retailer Rakuten plans to enter the mobile carrier market.
But one which birthed new, stronger, more evolved, corporate titans before it withered away: online gardens not merely "walled" but "domed like Wakanda," more resistant to regulation, less prone to unpleasant emergent properties and summons to testify to the Senate.
Reduced to dust and withered reeds when Saddam Hussein drained them to flush out rebels in the 1990s, the wetlands once again buzz with birds, dragonflies and the songs of buffalo-breeders, thanks to the devoted efforts of Iraqi conservationists.
LONDON (Reuters) - Energy companies' lifeline during the rout in oil prices - refining and downstream - has withered but the fall in margins is hardly a surprise for European refiners, which are turning again to survival strategies honed during the tough years.
And don't even speak to me about a Bucks teams whose woes stretch out into the expanse of forever: Because after a mere 4.1 years of Bucks futility, the constitution of even the HEARTIEST of fans will become broken and withered.
There is a fun surface element to the witch-discourse: gifs of The Craft; jokes playing off the difference between the two chief witch stereotypes, oversexed teen and withered crone; ten thousand funny Tumblr usernames; an excuse to re-watch Buffy.
Westbrook basically threw his entire reputation into a hurricane, balling out of control on stat sheets while his team starved to death and withered on the vine around him one game, and getting thoroughly dominated by Ricky Rubio in another.
But even if you think the Obama economy should have been better, the fact is that we've added 11 million private-sector jobs; stocks are way up; inflation and interest rates have stayed low; the budget deficit has withered away.
They readily mention locals like Royal Thunder, Whores, Withered, Order of the Owl, and the Coathangers when I ask about the current state of Atlanta's heavy music underground, and Kelliher is also eager to talk about his latest project, Ember City.
The choice isn't so much a compromise as it is a celebration of Rome's many batch-prepared classics like pomodori al riso, hollowed-out tomatoes filled with rice and baked with potatoes until the tomato is perfectly withered and nearly caramelized.
Although the pickle, ketchup, and onions have dried up and withered away, both the bun and the McMeat look like they could've been purchased...well, if not this morning, then at least at some point since the iPhone was invented.
Now compare against Lowell's version, from his 1946 collection, "Lord Weary's Castle": The wild ingrafted olive and the root Are withered, and a winter drifts to where The Pepperpot, ironic rainbow, spans Charles River and its scales of scorched-earth miles.
To Plunkitt, down in the trenches of the daily scramble for influence and power -- with perhaps a little of what he called "honest graft" on the side -- reformers were "like morning glories," flowers that bloomed briefly and then quickly withered.
The politically vital, grassroots-inspired film projects of Kate Sopko, for instance, shown at SPACES gallery and elsewhere around town, took viewers to the heart of ongoing efforts to reinvent the city in areas where the industrial town had withered.
Then there were those parts of the state that seemed stagnant, such as the Cape Coral Gardens development that emerged in the 1960s with thousands of rose bushes and formal gardens, which all withered when the attraction was a financial failure.
Three-year to four-year issuance withered after 2011, when the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority left Kangaroos off its list of high-quality liquid assets for Basel III purposes, thereby depleting the natural bank-balance-sheet demand for this short-term paper.
Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and not-quite-yet 2020 presidential candidate, is unveiling a proposal to dramatically expand the estate tax, which has withered considerably over the years, at the same time as Senate Republicans are working to eliminate it entirely.
The country has been mired in civil war for more than a quarter of a century, and this year around 6.2 million Somalis, around half the population, need aid after the drought withered crops, killed livestock and dried up waterholes in East Africa.
Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced a "clemency project" to breathe life into a power that has withered from disuse in the state and across the country: the granting of pardons and the commuting of prison sentences for people convicted of crimes.
Clearly, to achieve this, you'd need an actor without shame, a John Travolta-type per say, whose career sits at peak drunk uncle range—when fucks are no longer given because they've away withered like poor Tom Holland from a Thanos snap.
There were stacks of birds' nests in a fancy box, and also pig parts, a chicken with black skin and bones, long white radishes and longer burdock, goji, longan, red dates, black vinegar, and packets of fungi, flower buds, and withered rhizomes.
"It's a venture-capital-finance boom, where, within a mile of this building, there are somewhere between five hundred and a thousand startups," a withered specimen of the old school told me a few years back, gazing out his window, across San Francisco.
"When we examined the woman's reproductive system during her labor, we found that she, unlike most other women in their 60s who have withered ovaries, has ovaries similar to that of women in their 40s," Liu Chengwen, a chief physician with the hospital, told CCTV.
Every time I went to the Sunset Strip, you couldn't ignore the withered remains of hard-rockers, too much hair spray on not enough hair, the leather a little ragged, the pants a little too tight for someone on the wrong side of 220.
"Will had always told me to put myself first, and I had never really understood what that meant," Pinkett Smith said, after admitting that she had "withered, curled up in a ball about to die" when she realized she had lost touch with herself.
Bolt, straining every sinew, fought all the way to the line but the pace and grace that took him to his world record of 9.58 eight years ago has withered with age and perennial injury battles and this time he ran out of track.
She believes Appalachian poverty is not just the result of economic factors, but "a culture of grievance, victimhood and scapegoating tak[ing] root as traditional values of self-reliance and hard work have withered," as posited by modern Horatio Alger myth-maker JD Vance.
Tim Boyle, Columbia's chief executive, said in a recent interview that there was nothing the president could do to entice the company to make its products in the United States, where costs would be higher and apparel manufacturing expertise has withered through decades of outsourcing.
In Bolivia, which has also seen a surge of Chinese investment, several industries have withered as Chinese products have become cheaper and easier to buy, said Samuel Doria Medina, a Bolivian businessman and politician who has run unsuccessfully against President Evo Morales three times.
He spent six months in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, where his only family visitor was his sister, and emerged with a withered left leg, one inch shorter than the other, and a slight lifelong limp, which he learned to disguise with a bouncy gait.
In contrast, the ECB is not expected to raise interest rates until well into the second half of 2019, while bets on an interest rate hike from the BoE have withered away in the last two weeks after a recent run of tepid data.
At that point, Atlanta, Georgia (alongside Savannah) was about to churn out a bumper crop of melodic and progressive sludge acts like Mastodon, Baroness, Kylesa, and Black Tusk, but Withered always had more in common with classic Florida death metal and obscure Norwegian black metal.
Vikas Khanna, an assistant United States attorney, withered Ms. Kelly's attempts to explain away seemingly incriminating messages she sent before and during the week of the lane closings, particularly her response when Mr. Wildstein forwarded a text from the mayor about difficulties getting children to school.
The lowly basket could even be seen as a sine qua non of human history and progress, without which the world-altering development of agriculture might have withered on the vine: It allowed surplus food to be stored as well as transported for barter or sale.
In a voice that ''might have been the voice of a withered leaf, it was so light and dry,'' she says the villagers must make the rich man promise to let everyone who ever skipped on Mount Caburn skip once more, by turns, at the new moon.
He'd tried to cheese this encounter a bit by taking away the most of the guards' weapons while they were still inanimate corpses littered around the tomb, but it turns out that their withered claw-like hands are still plenty capable of tearing him to shreds.
Mets 7, Pirates 733 PITTSBURGH — The jam was minor in the fifth inning of Sunday's game — two runners on base with two outs and the Mets holding a comfortable lead — but it was the kind of situation in which pitcher Matt Harvey has withered this season.
The polling shows American trust in the federal government has withered precipitously since Nixon's impeachment proceedings in 1974 and, by and large, those in Congress and the executive branch are viewed as untrustworthy liars who are rarely acting ethically, according to polling from the Pew Research Group.
A withered Liltz -- who says she has weighed no more than 100 pounds since she was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 19 -- recalled thinking the night she decided to drug her daughter that "If I am dying, what's going to happen to Courtney?" according to court transcripts.
NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell on Monday after six sessions of gains, weighed by tech sector stocks, while a rally in energy shares petered out as crude oil gains withered to less than 2 percent from nearly 53 percent earlier.
Washington (CNN)A rising star at the State Department has written a blistering resignation letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying that under his leadership, the agency's influence has withered and morale among staff has plummeted, in part because of the "stinging disrespect" shown by the Trump administration.
But coming at the end of a long show that displayed the many ways hip-hop has moved on, it felt like a homegoing not just for one man, but for an old form of craft, and for a city whose role in hip-hop's grand narrative has withered.
If once upon a time the top job at a big brand was the ultimate prize for many designers — and once you got it, you didn't let go till they pried the sketch pad from your withered hands — now the average term seems to be three years or less.
Men in jackets and vests, women in petticoats, soldiers in uniform, bishops in miters, and children in nightcaps have invariably suffered substantial degradation as their leathery flesh withered, split, and flaked away; their eyeballs swelled and popped; and their gums rotted off to expose crooked and missing teeth.
In 2006, long after the steroid era's peak, he instituted stiffer drug testing policies, though critics say he didn't act soon enough, giving in to the thrill of watching juiced up ballplayers smack fastballs a mile through the sky just as baseball withered in popularity compared to football and basketball.
"I have been here all my life, and this drought is feeling like it will be around a while," says a despairing Whitney, whose property near the town of Gunnedah is on the Liverpool Plains, a usually fertile area now withered having received the lowest average rainfall in nearly 30 years.
Did they wish they'd crushed those withered grapes between their fingers and spent their days walking through fields of grass or being in love or confessing their delusions to a priest or starving like the hungry souls they were, begging for alms in the city square with some honesty for once?
"Not too long ago, gold prices would have withered on prospects of higher stock prices, but not this time around; investors are thinking that the spate of monetary easing is likely to persist for some time to come, keeping both gold and equities fairly well supported," INTL FCStone said in a note.
All summer, the garden's loyal growers, many of them immigrants for whom the grassy lawn, rows of corn and furry rabbits were reminders of countries left behind, watched from folding chairs on the sidewalk as the garden filled with litter, and the fruits of several decades of labor withered on the vine.
He galvanized an improbable coalition of blue collars fed up with Beltway dysfunction and self-dealing, while her white collars withered in enthusiasm, unable to sense the tectonic shift underway for years and foolhardy enough to think that the whole cozy establishment could not possibly be toppled by a troglodyte named Trump.
Philip Rivers had to watch as his team's 15-point lead slowly withered away, but the veteran quarterback took care of business in overtime, leading the Los Angeles Chargers 75 yards on eight plays, with Austin Ekeler punching the ball into the end zone from 7 yards out for a 30-24 victory.
Lineup changes kept the band from polishing off new material for longer than anticipated, but now, six years later, Thompson has solidified the Withered lineup with the addition of bassist and producer Colin Marston (also of Dysrhythmia and Gorguts), and Primitive Man guitarist and vocalist Ethan McCarthy (who also pitched in lyrics).
In their final days, real-life Fault in Our Stars couple Katie and Dalton Prager put on the best face they could for each other, sending love and encouragement via Skype across the miles that separated them as each withered from the cystic fibrosis disease that claimed their lives within five days of each other.
There was the patch of potted pet grass that began growing a wispy sort of mold between the stalks, the frail tomato plant I tried to support with wire only to scar and choke it, the christmas cactus that withered and drooped and died even though I swear I followed instructions to the letter.
Playlist: "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster" / "Withered Hand" / "I Come From the Mountain" / "The Dream" / "Overthrown" / "The Static God" / "Animated Violence" / "Ticklish Warrior" / "Gelatinous Cube" Spotify | Apple Music The Oh Sees as Experimental, Freak-folk Weirdos On the complete other end of the spectrum is the material that was largely released under the OCS moniker.
Data from Mark Muro and Jacob Whiton at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program shows that as the coal industry has withered since 2010 — squeezed out by natural gas as cheaper fuel for power generation — productivity in terms of economic output per Harlan County worker has shrunk by an average of 8.6 percent a year.
And while it has nothing to do the eradication campaign, a startling polio-related video can be seen on the website Sweatpants and Coffee: Dergin Tokmak, a child of Turkish immigrants in Germany whose legs were withered by childhood polio, does a leaping, spinning break-dance routine on a pair of bright red crutches.
In fact, over several decades, the corporate tax rate has withered as a source of revenue for the government, partly because of tax cuts and partly because of deductions, credits and ingenious tax-avoidance schemes cooked up by expensive lawyers and accountants — including the offshore shenanigans revealed by the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers.
Gillespie's intimates and multiple people close to Crossroads concede that his ties to the organization have long withered, Immediately after the Citizens United decision upended politics in 2010, Gillespie worked hand-in-glove with Rove to launch a batter of Republican fundraising operations that could allow the GOP to capitalize on the erasure of contribution limits.
On the current Primitive Man and Withered throat/shredder's latest project, he's reunited with bassist Zach Harlan (an old comrade from Keep and Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire), and brought in drummer J. P. Damron to collectively move towards the realization of this latest vision: thoroughly curdled black/death dusted with an infectious strain of grind.
The heavier growth was done with and the tall grasses that moved in the breeze had faded to a whitish gold, and the reed banks were a still paler gold, and the yellow flags of June had withered on the long stems but moved in their flayed tatters yet—she endured rather than enjoyed all this.
After a long rise starting in June, Carson topped Trump in Iowa poll averages starting in early October: His period in first place was brief — by October 103 Trump was edging him out again in Iowa — but for months he was second in national polls to Trump: However, with good poll numbers comes scrutiny, and Carson withered in the face of it.
Mr. Albee's Broadway debut, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" the famously scabrous portrait of a withered marriage, won a Tony Award in 1963 for best play, ran for more than a year and half and enthralled and shocked theatergoers with its depiction of stifling academia and of a couple whose relationship has been corroded by dashed hopes, wounding recriminations and drink.
Against the backdrop of withered trees and the spindly access road winding up to the interstate (the sound of autoshifting, faint, as if in dreams) is a sight that looks weird from the outside four generic, same uncolor, equally worn Bigurls, lined up next to one another, making the rest of the lot seem even more vacant than if it had been completely empty.
Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies … Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua's miracle left it more than three thousand year ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Savior's presence.
" By the end of the 19th century, the American physician George M. Gould and his colleague Walter L. Pyle listed, in their book "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine," a number of instances of men suckling infants, including an unverifiable report, relayed by 16th-century missionaries in Brazil, claiming "there was a whole Indian nation whose women had small and withered breasts, and whose children owed their nourishment entirely from the males.
Chuck Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee's chairman and a withered 84-year-old reminder why the United States needs term limits, refused to address the Democrats' concerns and the hearing got underway shortly after 11 AM. The second Senator to address Kavanaugh directly, Orrin Hatch (R-UT) spent several minutes giving the nominee a thorough tongue bath, which included references to his willingness to volunteer in the community and coach youth basketball.
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